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Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’
through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously
formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related
lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it
draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of
sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children
were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy
responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both
‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations
boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which
these children navigated their way between the expectations of two,
if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of
settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book
offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s
lives. -- .
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity,
this collection further greater understanding of religion as a
critical element of modern children's and young people's history.
It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that
religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century children, or that 'secularization' is the only
lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument
that religion was an abiding influence among British world children
throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this
volume places 'religion' at the center of analysis and discussion.
At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a
broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the
historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in
various 'British' settings denoted as 'Anglo' or 'colonial' during
the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. These
contexts include mission fields, churches, families, Sunday
schools, camps, schools and youth movements. Together they are
treated as 'sites' in which religion contributed to identity
formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as
gender, race, disability and denomination. The contributors develop
this subject for childhoods that were experienced largely, but not
exclusively, outside the 'metropole', in a diversity of
geographical settings. By extending the geographic range, even
within the British world, it provides a more rounded perspective on
children's global engagement with religion.
Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity,
this collection further greater understanding of religion as a
critical element of modern children's and young people's history.
It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that
religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century children, or that 'secularization' is the only
lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument
that religion was an abiding influence among British world children
throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this
volume places 'religion' at the center of analysis and discussion.
At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a
broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the
historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in
various 'British' settings denoted as 'Anglo' or 'colonial' during
the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries.
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